[1] Sergei Kolesnikov was born on 4 January 1955, in Moscow in a family of Soviet intellectuals.

[2] His mother was Maria Pavlovna Kolesnikova (born 1920) and his father Valentin Kolesnikov (1915–1977).

After the division of the theater he worked in the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.

In 1990 he moved to the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre,[2] where he worked until October 2011.

From 21 May 2006 to 7 October 2012, he starred in the leading television program Fazenda (Channel One Russia).